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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5156/C.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='US Drug Agency Approves Disputed Alzheimers Treatment' data-article-id='5694'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10354'>U.S. government health officials have approved the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years. </span> <span data-start-time='10354' data-end-time='22708'>However, independent experts say the treatment has not been shown to help slow the brain disease, reported the Associated Press.</span> <span data-start-time='22708' data-end-time='32938'>Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug, called aducanumab. </span> <span data-start-time='32938' data-end-time='41146'>It was developed by the biotechnology company Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. </span> <span data-start-time='41146' data-end-time='45708'>The drug will be sold under the name of Aduhelm.</span> <span data-start-time='45708' data-end-time='54188'>Biogen’s stock value increased by 38 percent on the day of the FDA approval.</span> <span data-start-time='54188' data-end-time='64542'>The approval is based on results showing that the drug seemed “reasonably likely” to help Alzheimer’s patients. </span> <span data-start-time='64542' data-end-time='76646'>It is the only treatment that U.S. regulators have said can treat the disease, rather than its resulting conditions, or symptoms.</span> <span data-start-time='76646' data-end-time='89292'>However, Reuters news agency reported last week that two members of a group of advisors to the FDA have resigned in protest. </span> <span data-start-time='89292' data-end-time='104208'>Dr. David Knopman and Dr. Joel Perlmutter said they strongly disagreed with the FDA's decision to approve Aduhelm for treatment of Alzheimer's.</span> <span data-start-time='104208' data-end-time='110813'>The decision to approve the drug could affect millions of Americans. </span> <span data-start-time='110813' data-end-time='117000'>It is likely to cause debate among doctors and researchers. </span> <span data-start-time='117000' data-end-time='130708'>The approval may also affect standards used to judge experimental treatments including those that seem to help patients only a little.</span> <span data-start-time='130708' data-end-time='137979'>How to judge treatments of difficult conditions is the subject of debate. </span> <span data-start-time='137979' data-end-time='146979'>Groups representing Alzheimer’s patients and their families say any new treatment should be approved. </span> <span data-start-time='146979' data-end-time='159229'>But many experts warn that approving the drug could be a bad model and would open the door to poor treatments.</span> <span data-start-time='159229' data-end-time='169042'>Dr. Caleb Alexander was one of the FDA advisers who warned against the drug’s approval. </span> <span data-start-time='169042' data-end-time='178729'>The Associated Press reports that he said he was “surprised and disappointed” by the decision.</span> <span data-start-time='178729' data-end-time='185188'>Alexander is a medical researcher at Johns Hopkins University. </span> <span data-start-time='185188' data-end-time='197021'>He said “the FDA gets the respect that it does because it has regulatory standards that are based on firm evidence.” </span> <span data-start-time='197021' data-end-time='205896'>In this case, he said he thought the agency approved the drug without enough evidence.</span> <span data-start-time='205896' data-end-time='214354'>The World Health Organization estimates that 50 million people around the world have dementia. </span> <span data-start-time='214354' data-end-time='222708'>Alzheimer's disease might be the cause of 60 to 70 percent of those cases. </span> <span data-start-time='222708' data-end-time='235604'>Alzheimer’s slowly attacks areas of the brain needed for memory, reasoning, communication and basic, daily tasks.</span> <span data-start-time='235604' data-end-time='241521'>Researchers do not fully understand what causes Alzheimer’s. </span> <span data-start-time='241521' data-end-time='250000'>But there is agreement among some researchers that brain plaque may be one cause.</span> <span data-start-time='250000' data-end-time='258333'>Aducanumab helps clear a protein called beta-amyloid from the brain. </span> <span data-start-time='258333' data-end-time='261708'>Other experimental drugs have done that. </span> <span data-start-time='261708' data-end-time='269917'>But they 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